Wednesday, June 20, 2012
My problem is all the wasted space and material by handicap ramps and parking space. My idea for a solution is to use a larger version of the modular robots in a snake instead of wheels on a wheelchair. It would eliminate the need for ramps and the problems with curbs and stairs/escalators. The sensors of this object would be the person driving it, and the actuators would be the ModBots powering it in a snake. It could be a nonprofit organization and since these are a new invention, I don't know the price, but the only labor is bolting them on and building a chair.
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Good idea. Modular robots have already being proposed by NASA to build temporary structures and trusses on the International Space Station. Using this technology to assist persons with special needs seems to be a good application. In your proposed solution, if the person driving the robot is the robot's sensor, then it becomes a remote-controlled or tele-operated robot, not an autonomous robot. What do you think the robot might need, in terms of sensors to make it autonomous or even semi-autonomous (like working with partial supervision from the human operator, but with some intelligence of its own) ?
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